The new year has brought a new template for bridges over rail lines. After the bridge at Gokhale Road in Andheri got Howrah-bridge-like girders, Mumbai is set to get multiple cable-stayed bridges over rail lines. At least three of these should be ready this year.

“The BMC entrusted the Maharashtra Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation (MRIDC) to re-construct dilapidated British-era road overbridges in Mumbai and the suburbs. Considering the tremendous road traffic, in most cases, the MRIDC has planned the new cable-stayed bridges adjacent to the existing ones. Old bridges will be demolished later. A detailed plan has been made in such a way that it causes almost no hindrance even to pedestrian movement,” a senior MRIDC official said.